Constructed Photographic Artworks
Calum Colvin OBE RSA FRSE is a Scottish artist whose work combines photography, painting, and installation, and often deals with issues of Scottish identity and culture and with the history of art.
Featured Artwork: Burns After Flaxman 2023
This work responds to the Flaxman statue in terms of the formality and solidity of the original work. It moves between greyness and colour – the tension between bookishness and bodily life, between marble columns and making a living, between stony deadness and live being. There are touches of the organic – green grass, flowers, straw, to add to the tensions between solidity, ghostliness, and vivacity.
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- 1 January 2020
A miscellany of contextual information on the images and related ruminations. Dirt and Deity This work…
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A guide to the works as displayed in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery 14/11/15 – 28/3/16…
Read More- 19 August 2019
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/stories/calum-colvin-celebrated-new-book The new book, published by Luath Press, was described as “brilliant” by Scottish sculptor and…
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